Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The Rubin Report" channel.

  1. Yeah, Hitchens experienced something of a conservative revival, talking about Islam.
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  2.  @ericharmon7163  Yes. They lived a very rich lifestyle, while I worked and paid my way as I went, wearing 2nd-hand clothes and driving a beater car.
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  3.  @thrithgolden2748  Yes. Whoopi and you should help them. I'll chip in, too. Just waiting for liberals to stop putting MY money where THEIR mouth is. Sick of the empty virtue signaling that's spending our grandchildren into debt they can't possibly hope to afford, with or without the added cost of higher education.
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  4. The whole POINT of the USA is that people are better off without government micro-managing their affairs and being restricted to a VERY small set of things it may do. But there's always SOMEbody who wants government to do MORE and millions who agree with that proposition, and so our government is 100 times bigger than it should be and growing without any restraint, as we speak.
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  5. Black and white "leaders" perpetuate their careers by pandering to victim mentality and crushing entrepreneurial spirit.
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  6. Classical liberals distrust the government. Progressive liberals distrust their fellow man.
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  7. My first big exposure to Alex Jones, he was ranting about child molestation rings and conspiracies in the highest circles. Crazy. Now, January, 2018, guess what?
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  8. I'll just take on two of your earlier ones. Epstein's making the point about atomic energy that we really aren't rational in our objections to and illogical regulations of atomic power plants. You can build the courthouse out of granite, but you can't build a nuclear power plant out of granite, because granite's too radioactive. But because we're "used" to coal and oil, we accept risks attached to them that are far greater than the risks people are willing to take in nuclear power. Those miles of coal piles emit more radiation, and burned by the ton, more radioactive particulates into the air we breathe than we ever experience from nuclear power plants. People just really don't understand the insane risks they already take, without batting an eye, but have what turns out to be an irrational fear of what is possibly the cleanest form of energy of all, just because we're afraid of radiation.
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  9. Kukaks.
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  10.  @Undomaranel  We used to be a nation of educated peasants, and very casual about a LOT of things the aristocracy disapproved. That was one of the cool things about the USA. Go to the opera and there're top hats and tails sitting side by side with farmers in homespun. The "crude banter" is definitely a "commoner" behavior, and it offends the dogmatically religious as well as the would-be aristocrats (the exact same kinds of people, BTW).
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  11. You got it slightly backwards. They pretend they're offended, because they want to tear somebody or something down.
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  12. Adult vs Agitator and Activist. An adult is too busy working to make their corner of the world a better place to waste time on activism or agitation. An adult does the math, helps one or two people, and contributes to charities, in the sure knowledge that if everyone did the same, nobody'd be wasting time agitating or protesting or petitioning government, because they'd be too busy making tomorrow a better day, right where they're at. Don't protest for Med-4-All. Hold a barn dance and a raffle to pay for a new x-ray machine or a couple more beds at the local hospital. People SENSE that the local medical care is a community - i.e., communal - thing. But if you can't make it work at the local level, there's no way the feds, who are operating at about 30 cents on the dollar efficiency, aren't going to fix it for everybody. You want to be active? Start fund-raisers for your local/neighborhood/community clinic, so medical care for everybody in your vicinity is a little better than it otherwise would be. Take pride in that as a community. There's big status in being the rich guy who made a big contribution to the hospital. Local hospitals should have huge endowments, if people REALLY cared about their health care. It's just easier to virtue signal and complain when you don't get everything you want from somebody else. What's the health care industry getting from YOU, without being forced to it? Before Johnson's Great Society, places like Harlem were pretty classy, and on the way up. And they were doing it the RIGHT way. Harlem had some very good schools in the 1950s and '60s. Harlem was like a charter school, by today's standards, and one of the better school districts in New York City. Before and immediately after the REAL fight was won, for equal treatment under the law. "Leave us be, and we'll do just fine." Dems lost that civil rights battle and immediately built a federal plantation. Normal people of ALL colors are getting tired of the new racists calling themselves anti-racists. WORKERS of all colors are increasingly far-removed from what you college kids believe, and no wonder, when you look at the one-party capture of the academy. Boasting about one's degrees and IQs is like announcing to the world you probably need help tying your shoes. I'm sorry, but that means cleaning your room, fixing good food, working on projects, including yourself. Like that stone wall for the raised beds.
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  13. uhh. "pawns."
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  14. Would that "liberals" didn't project their self-hate and hatred of others onto everyone else.
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  15. The ancients came up with all kinds of mythological explanations for things. "You have a dragon in your belly!" And the treatment for "dragon in the belly" was some herb, and that herb - it was said - would calm the angry dragon. Of course it wasn't a dragon in the belly. But the herb cured the stomach ailment, and the dragon myth became "science." I think Peterson's trying to get at how we humans have (psychological) archetypes that seem to be hard-wired into our brains from birth. Universality of red = blood, light = wisdom, for instance (pulling these outta my ass, here). Actual scholars can tell you the common threads found between all religions. Religions grapple with unanswerable (by science) questions about life, death, and meaning. None of them are perfect. All of them address a deep need in the human psyche for meaning. True or false, it doesn't matter, IF THEY WORK. And even if they. DON'T work, people will eagerly embrace belief systems (faiths) that resonate with them. Now put all this into a hopper and turn the time crank millions of years, from pre-human, to the first self-aware human, on to today. We in the West think in terms of Christianity, which derives from Judaism, which derives at least party from the Egyptians, which derives from archetypes apparently hard-wired in humans since pre-historic times. What we're coming to find out is that it's irrational to hold religious convictions. It's also irrational NOT to hold religious convictions! And it turns out that the ABSENCE of any over-arching meaning for life is a sure path to extinction. That's why atheism is irrational. Without the mystical, society's not stable enough for scientific advancement. Scientific advancement exposes all the holes in religious doctrine. Rejecting religion leads to extinction, because religion fills a psychological need in self-aware, MORTAL beings. Without the religion, humanity stagnates. WITH religion (or its political-ideology substitutes), we devolve into hedonism, nihilism, and totalitarianism, replacing God and Morality with Government and Law. I don't think Peterson is offering any kind of final answers to these phenomena. He's just pointing them out, and he has some PRACTICAL ways of coping that seem to help people live better lives. Life is suffering. Life is uncertain. Life is TEMPORARY. How do we resolve these facts of life in such a way as to keep life on the up-tick, without descending into chaos? Without harming others or imposing our will on others by force? That's kind of the role of religion. Finding things that WORK over long time periods, spanning many generations of finite-lived human beings? My PERSONAL solution is to be scientific, with an overlay of "God is watching" and "Jesus loves me" from my early upbringing. It's superstitious. It's silly. But it helps ME interpret the world around me using reason to judge what IS and LOVE to set the goalposts. Over time, I try to work towards what SHOULD be, by understanding what IS.
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  16. Yes. We are perceiving the crime with our eyes.
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  17.  @jennifers8843  We'll see. I think we're at the stage of rejecting our feckless leaders. I don't think we're at the point of rejecting our bedrock ideals. On the down side, too many of us look to government to protect us from our own stupidity, and stupidity is on the rise.
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  18. They didn't quarantine AIDs patients or shut down the gay bath houses, which were know super-spreader centers, even though at the time everyone thought it was 100% fatal They quarantined the HEALTHY during COVID-19. Same guy in charge: Anthony Fauci. ALL OF THIS IS POLITICAL. SCIENCE WENT OUT THE WINDOW THE INSTANT IT LOOKED LIKE IT MIGHT HURT CHINA'S REPUTATION.
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  19. This guy's half smart. Not all bad. Could be reasoned with.
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  20.  @mattobermiller5041  You're both missing the point, which is just because it's bad doesn't mean laws against it make things better. In the end, it's a person's decision not to go that route. Meth and fentanyl are bound to go through the roof in one place where it's suddenly legalized where it's illegal everywhere else, because druggies will flock there, and actively recruit others to support their habit. But maybe you underestimate the extent of the problem before it was legalized or decriminalized. Maybe it just got easier to see and measure, because people aren't trying to hide it, any more. Hold people strictly accountable for their actions, whatEVER they put into their bloodstream! Instead of chasing drug dealers and making bad people rich and the police more militarized, and feeding the cycle of pain, we should look for ways to break that cycle. Maybe we should try to learn from Portugal's example. A "staunch Libertarian" should only want to enforce laws protecting persons and property. It's foolhardy to pass laws protecting people from themselves. Poverty programs and the war on drugs are a very toxic brew that isn't eliminated by doing what we've been doing. You're basically making Carrie Nation's argument for the Prohibition of Alcohol.
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  21. Jesus spoke in parables.
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  22. I wish these kids' idealism were wed with more understanding of the world. Kudos to Dave for giving them a voice. It reveals their shallow thinking. The one gal's pretty sophisticated in a particular form of argument - a dialectic - but she ran up against a couple logical inconsistencies regarding free speech. She's actually very assaultive in her use of free speech. Made her stumble, just by letting her rant a little bit, 'til the question of her disruptiveness became a matter of HER rights, when she came right out and said she had every right to offend people. LOL! Heh. These kids should want a more de-centralized system, so they could all move to the same place and live their right way, without interference, enforcing their mores, locally. Can't be happy with that. Gotta make everybody else do as they say. Prohibitionist zeal.
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  23. And the society-destroying "response."
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  24. But the technocracy relies on technologies that make holding a people captive well nigh impossible. They would have to drag us back into a pre-technology dark age for the same old control systems to work, once more. There are historical forces in the direction of decentralization that I think are inevitable. We'll still have a small number of centralized things, like roads, rails, and Internet. But the way we use all of that stuff will be more about the local/regional people. They made - and are making - the case for centralized controls. People are rebelling against this "sneak preview" of the dystopia the Democrats have in mind. And the Democrats can't HELP themselves. If they take the WH and Congress, things will get worse before they get better, but the blowback will just keep getting bigger and bigger. But we'll see.
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  25. ... and politicians who have more power than the people they're supposed to serve.
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  26. Grimm Tale: What's ironic, to me, is that the left in this country, when you get done adding up all the things they think government should do, actually argue FOR the fascist system they rail AGAINST. For instance, Otto Von Bismarck thought free medical care was a GREAT way to keep the ruling class relevant to a population that was evolving AWAY from subservience to the ruling classes. Can't name a single liberal who doesn't really want single payer, and can find nothing wrong with it, even though it's a cornerstone of original Nazism!
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  27. I noticed that the people at work who get the annual flu vaccine miss a lot more time sick than I do.
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  28. Wrong, Mills. You mistook the principal's remarks for Paul's, because you rushed to make your comments, which you do far too often.
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  29. Heidi is used to preaching to the (left) choir. She, like many on the left, is used to being cheered by people who share her echo chamber.
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  30.  @TheAirSchool  I think Fauci's all about theater. I also think Paul's over the target, and one of very few individuals who has the balls to ask Fauci the tough questions. I think his air of confidence is calculated. I think his indignation is manufactured. I think he's scared to death that people will find just how close his ties are to the outbreak. Very revealing email from Fauci in late 2019: "Did we do this?" He knows full well that this is EXACTLY the kind of thing he's been working on and funding for YEARS. Fauci's 100% political hack. He had the same job when AIDs hit. At the time, it was believed to be 100% fatal, and 100% transmitted by body fluids, and gay bathhouses in cities like San Francisco were super-spreader locations. The response then? "You're a homophobe if you close the bathhouses!" The response now? "Quarantine EVERYbody!"
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  31. Easy. Cut your cable. Don't watch them. The 1st Amendment isn't about an obligation to report things fairly. It's about having the right to put your spin on things, and nobody can stop you. I think it's all fine. I can see one day ABC, NBC and CBS being rolled up into one. They're all going for the same exact demographic and political persuasion, preferably on the not-too-clever side. People who're hip ain't watchin' those networks, except for live sports coverage, like live NFL. But even the NFL is now being consumed asynchronously. $100 a year and the NFL sells you every game, back to 2009. Any time AFTER the game is played, you can go in and watch it, commercial-free. If you can wait 'til Tuesday, it's cut up a little better. Plus the geeks get the All-22.
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  32. One of the telltales of cultism. It's rampant in legacy media. Facts don't matter.
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  33. If Trump's calling DeSantis the "lockdown governor," then he just lost his chance for my vote. Trump played politics to get re-elected. DeSantis stood up to the establishment to do the right thing. Not sure I even like DeSantis, but Trump has shown no indication that he learned anything from his mistakes or even MADE any mistakes.
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  34. Carter gave Begin and Sadat that buck-toothed grin and peace ensued between Egypt and Israel that has stood for almost half a century. That's not to be taken lightly. Even Carter's most virulent opponents never questioned the man's integrity. Disagree with him 'til the cows come home, but could't not like the guy.
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  35. What Hamas - a creation of Israel injected into Palestine - did was terrible. But if what they did was terror, what do you call what Israel has done to Gaza? In the American West, you had a similar ongoing conflict between ethnic groups. It, too, was very lopsided in favor of one side. What's downplayed/ignored is that the massacres and atrocities on both sides were committed by a very small number of renegades by enraged people (on both sides) lashing out in fear or retribution or both. Your focus on the latest act of terror doesn't blind me to the fact that if you want to count dead children, Israel has killed more children in the last few weeks than Russia has in a full-scale conflict in Ukraine in almost 2 years. Let's not gloss over the open-air prison the Israelis are operating or forget there is such unbridled antipathy for Israel, Europe, and the USA in the Middle East. The USA picked up right where the British left off re-drawing the map of the Middle East by force. But even the British didn't carve out an entire nation for the Jews and force hundreds of thousands, if not millions, out of their homes and off their land. The ongoing situation in Gaza is intolerable. The treatment of Palestinians is inexcusable. I get that Israel is in a non-stop battle for survival, surrounded by hostile nations. But you have to ask yourself "Why is that?" Maybe it's because the USA under the UK's guidance, made a whole country out of thin air, called it "Israel," and evicted and oppressed the locals. Under that logic, we should evict all European and African-descended Americans from America! How do you think they would react if someone came along and said "For the greater good, you must give up your home and your homeland," and used force to bring it about? You're worried about 10 hostages, but don't mention 1200 Palestinian children killed. I guess it's OK to drop bombs on people, but if their feeble-best response is to chop off a few heads and seize 10 hostages, then that's terrorism? It's terrorism if you don't have advanced military hardware and bombers? You need to see this as - as Dave Chapelle called it - asymmetric warfare. There's a war being waged on these people and it's been ongoing for a very long time. I'm not justifying hostage taking, but I see it as the consequence of way worse that's been going for a very long time. This is just ONE atrocity you can point to, and there's no denying it's an atrocity, but don't let your confirmation bias blind you to the big picture or the MANY atrocities committed by the side you happen to support.
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  36. They won't own up to their hypocrisy, though. They'll just forget or try to make everybody else forget what they were saying a year or two or five or ten before, and act like they were always for strong borders.
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  37. Pretty much. The chaos in the cities will result in people wanting order, and they will vote for all kinds of future federal over-reach and surveillance. Federal troops and a whole new separate department for domestic policing that defies Posse Comitatus.
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  38. @John Linares Good luck finding anybody who's in this country, legally, who doesn't have a picture ID, regardless of color.
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  39. There's a rare form of intelligence that comes across humble.
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  40. Yes. Government is the One Ring. Great metaphor from Tolkien.
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  41. That's where I'm at, andy.
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  42. What he said.
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  43. Whatever sells sneakers and keeps the lights on at the sweatshop. You have to admire Kaep for his dedication and sacrifices on behalf of slavery in China and black on black violence in America.
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  44.  @MimiRN38  : A privileged white dude pretending to be black, who's conspicuously cashing in as a race-baiter.
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  45. It's because he's telling the lies that they want told.
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  46. @Oners82 Name one good thing the Dems are doing. One thing I will agree with about Dems AND Repubs is the LESS they do, the better things are for the rest of us. We need to pull the teeth of the federal government, and reduce it to its original role and scope. Everything they do "for" us ends up being worse than it was, before, and costing us double or triple. Plus, the bigger it gets, the easier it is for crooks to hide behind the law and use government as their shield.
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  47. Whoopi proves that being witty doesn't equate with being intelligent.
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  48. Liberals of the past fought for freedom after centuries of bending the knee in the service of their personal safety and security. They repaid the King with their blind obedience. The ORIGINAL liberals saw that it was all a racket for the benefit and aggrandizement of the king, and those whom the king favored. So the only ones really fighting against a return to serfdom are called "right-wing extremists," even though MOST of them (us) are more liberal than those whom we oppose. I don't consider myself a conservative. I consider myself a libertarian who sees the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence as a profound sea change in our understanding of the PROPER relationship between government and governed.
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  49.  @eriknielsen1849  : I disagree.
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  50.  @eriknielsen1849  : I think you overestimate the need for a conspiracy to see things unfold as they have. But I agree that the lack of any accountability, and the continuing obstruction by Deep State actors within Trump's own administration, like Christopher Wray, and others, who CONTINUE to stonewall the release of information. Those guys who stalled and slow-walked everything Trey Gowdy was asking for as chair of intel committee. Those guys all worked for Trump. But I see other theories having just as credible as your "They're ALL in on it!" theory. If you look at the political climate and the absolute control of legacy-media narratives from the Democrat side, PLUS the large fraction of civil service that were actively working to sabotage Trump since before he even took office, maybe there's something ELSE taking place. For one, I do NOT believe for one SECOND that Rachel Maddow, Don Lemonade, or Chris Matthews are secretly in cahoots with Trump. I don't for one second believe that they WANT their narratives falling on deaf ears. No. They're all shocked and really kind of in a state of disbelief that the same forms of propaganda that manufactured the public's consent so successfully, so many times in the past, are not getting traction. I, too, was initially very concerned when I learned that Barr used to work for George Bush, Senior. I still have some reservations. But IF he's on the up-and-up, this is exactly how Barr should be playing it. And before I totally jump into the same ocean of cynical despair in which YOU are wallowing, I'm going to wait and see just how this all plays out. If Trump were truly a neocon, I think things would've played out much differently in Syria, especially Northern Syria, where the Kurds have been trying to carve out an ethnic homeland for decades. John Bolton would still be working for Trump, if that were the case. As for wanting eggheads like Kissinger around, I think this is pretty much Trump's way. He has brought in a diverse set of experiences and beliefs into his cabinet, and the "chaos" reported by WaPo and other legacy snake-in-the-grass media is exactly what I would expect, if he didn't just hire people who just agree with him on everything. Reagan was similar in this regard, allowing his staffers and cabinet to have free-ranging debates amongst themselves, before he made his decisions. If Trump were a neocon, he'd've wrapped himself in the flag and been at war with Iran by 2018. I think that was probably the neocon plan, all along. Iraq, Syria, Libya, then knock off Iran... There've been some bumps along the way. The missile strike after the false-flag chemical attack was not a good look. But as I read between the lines, I found out that the death toll from his missile attack in Syria was virtually nil. They KNEW the attack was coming, they knew WHERE the attack was coming, and people cleared out of the way. Russian shipping cleared the hell out with plenty of time before the attack, which I'm starting to think was mostly show, and maybe even to keep the neocons around him at bay a little while longer. But we'll see. I think we're seeing Trump do as he pretty much always has. I think if he had acted as aggressively as you or I might have wished, in the early going, he would've been savaged in the media, sabotaged by the never-Trumpers lingering in his administration, and removed from office by any means necessary. Instead, he kind of sits on you. He can't track down all the leakers, directly. But he CAN slowly appoint his own people, and ratchet up the pressure on the leakers, who don't know if the new guy is one of their own, or somebody quietly looking over their shoulder on Trump's behalf. Instead of Trump looking over his shoulder out of fear of the never-Trumpers, it's the never-Trumpers who are hearing footsteps. The proof will be in the indictments that Durham brings. Is he working for us, or is he just working for the insiders? As for Trump, himself, he's been saying the same things for DECADES. "We're getting ripped off in our foreign trade. The Chinese are thieves and liars. Uncontrolled immigration is bad and must be stopped. We have too many ridiculous regulations." Very simple ideas that were not and are not mainstream, unless you talk to the average working man in the street, who's sick of being bled dry so that rich, champagne liberals can fly around in their private jets and lecture us about global warming. I actually wish Trump were a bit MORE ideological, but he's basically an FDR Democrat, like Reagan was, although Reagan made more ideological arguments about limited government, in general, and opposing Soviet Russia's "evil empire." I don't think Trump sees things that way. But as a practical man, whatever programs we have in place, he wants them to work and be run more efficiently. Not a philosophical break from big government. More of a "Well, this ain't working" kind of blue-collar appraisal of government.
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